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Video Transcript GATES: Now look here Roderick, nobody wants this Ark to be in Ethiopia, you know, a black country, more than I do. (LAUGHS) What do you really think? I mean do you really think the Ark is here or what? What is in this building? GRIERSON: Well the Ethiopian tradition maintains that it is and nobody else makes that claim, and therefore I think it's something that has to be looked at very seriously. GATES: Yeah, but that's not enough. GRIERSON: Well … GATES: That in here or not? GRIERSON: One of the problems that we have with this is that we tend to be saying that there's only one Ark. And we look at the Bible and we think there's one Ark, it couldn't possibly have survived, it couldn't possibly have been here. But in fact, there's a history of Arks being used in the ancient near East, so if one imagines Arks not as a single object but as a kind of religious instrument which existed throughout the ancient near East I don't see any reason why there couldn't be an object of immense antiquity and immense importance here. || THE HOLY LAND EPISODE ||
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Roderick Grierson on the Ark at Aksum